Internet Explorer 10 to Get Flash Fixes After All

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Although there aren't many of them out there yet, Windows 8 users
will be happy to hear that Microsoft is making security fixes for
Adobe Flash Player available well before the new operating
system's General Availability (GA) day.

Previously,
Windows 8 users were told that a new
security patch for Internet Explorer 10's Flash Player
wouldn't be available until Oct. 26, the day Windows 8 goes on
sale to the general public.

That left current users of the yet-to-be-officially-released OS
with few alternatives; in a move borrowed from Google Chrome,
Microsoft fully integrated Flash into IE10, and the browser can
now only be updated by Microsoft, not Adobe.

Thousands of people are already using Windows 8 Release Preview,
the fully functional "beta" version of Windows 8, which Microsoft
offers free of charge. The beta version will work
until January 2013.

For those using older browsers, things weren't so tough. In
Safari, Firefox and every other version of
Internet Explorer, Adobe is able to push the update directly
to the browser. But on IE10, the default browser in Windows 8,
Microsoft has taken sole update authority.

Before two crucial security updates that came late last month,
hackers were using several Flash zero-day exploits, previously
unknown security flaws for which there is no fix, in the player
to drop malware on unsuspecting computers whose users click on
malicious links.

Bogus versions of a mobile version of Adobe Flash player were
also used to infect Android mobile devices.